Artemis Eel, also known as eel, long fish, sea snake, etc., has a delicious taste and delicious meat, with few spines and thick meat. It often lives in rice fields, rivers, creeks, ponds, canals, lakes and other silt bottoms. It is produced in all parts of my country, with the Yangtze River Basin, Liaoning and Tianjin producing more. The production period is from June to October, and the fattest ones are from June to August. The body of the eel is like a snake, cylindrical. The head is thick and the tail is thin. The body surface is protected by a layer of smooth mucous membrane. It has no scales and is yellow-brown in color. The body has irregular dark spots. The fins are underdeveloped and have basically disappeared. There is only one triangular thorn on the whole body. The meat is tender and delicious.
nutritional value
1. Eel is rich in DHA and lecithin, which are the main components of the cell membranes of various organs and tissues of the human body, and are indispensable nutrients for brain cells;
2. Eel contains eelin, which lowers and regulates blood sugar, and contains very little fat, making it an ideal food for diabetics;
3. Eel is rich in vitamin A, which can improve vision and promote the metabolism of skin membranes.
Edible effect
Monopterus albus is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians;
It has the functions of replenishing qi, nourishing blood and fixing phlegm, warming yang and spleen, strengthening essence and stopping bleeding, nourishing liver and kidney, dispelling wind and dredging collaterals, etc.;
Traditional medicine believes that eel is a warming and strengthening agent, suitable for internal hemorrhoid bleeding, qi deficiency, anal prolapse, Postpartum Thinness, women's fatigue, Uterus prolapse, Kidney deficiency low back pain , limb weakness, rheumatism paralysis, mouth and eye deviation embolism.
Applicable people
Can be consumed by the general population
1. It is especially suitable for people with weak body, insufficient Qi and blood, and malnutrition; people with anal prolapse, uterine prolapse, women's labor injuries, and internal hemorrhoid bleeding can also eat more; patients with rheumatic arthralgia, soreness and weakness of limbs, diabetes, Hyperlipidemia，coronary heart disease , people with arteriosclerosis can eat more;
2. Eel is windy and itchy skin disease Those who have chronic diseases such as bronchial tubes should not eat. asthma , lymph node tuberculosis, cancer , lupus erythematosus, etc. should be consumed with caution; in addition, those whose diseases are caused by deficiency of heat, or who have just recovered from heat syndrome, dysentery, and abdominal distension should not eat it.
